Seaweed chronicles a world at the water's edge

""Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth," writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. "Why wouldn't seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?" On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing na...

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Main Author: Shetterly, Susan Hand, 1942- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The Gulf of Maine
  • The underwater forest
  • Flat Island
  • Ghost fish
  • Seaweed stories
  • Harvests and history
  • Starting from scratch
  • Seeding the string
  • The uneasy art of making policy
  • The common eider duck
  • The European green crab
  • The world according to Ascophyllum
  • Tending the wild
  • Epilogue.